How to Organize Your Garden with a Planting Plan

Organizing a garden has been a major problem for those with a desire of planting their own flowers, trees, vegetables, or any other kind of garden. Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) said: "Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn." From the visit to Missouri and Iowa, this hub will show some lessons.

First of all, anyone can organize a garden. The key is to plant with a plan. Marketing has taken care of this plan; it just seems that they belong to a magazine page or a well done book. The vegetables, the leaves and all the planting matter such as gardening tools, are part of an unreal luxurious and photo-shop look.

Here in Puerto Rico, a variety of natural plantations are seen and well cared for. When it is about one or two living together, the work involved in a garden demands tasks and dedication, that is why a planting plan is necessary, to have beautiful gardens seen at:

• A Botanical Garden With Culture
• The Botanical Garden of the University of Puerto Rico

What was seen, and the pictures taken in Missouri and Iowa were part of being involved in a reality that encouraged to organize a garden with a planting plan. It is simple enough to start one.

Planting requires space, tools and invention. Investing unnecessary amounts of money favors the loss of garden faith by the frustration of failures. Starting brings mistakes, but it surely brings experience. Don't lose faith and try to be creative dealing with the planting plan. The first step is to know that the plan will provide garden necessities by:

• Designing a realistic garden with the space owned
• Making a list of the tools needed (an inventory of own tools keep unnecessary investments)
• Studying about the planting requirements such as sun, temperature, watering and soil conditions.

The need of water is indispensable for any life, so one of your first steps is to know how will that necessity be provided. There are many ways to do so, this is an individual choice. The one shown in the picture is an excellent idea. This person runs a water line. This is convenient if time, or space is limited to be running around with a bucket or a hose.

Compost is organic material that can be used as a soil amendment or as a medium to grow plants. Help eliminate chemical fertilizers to your garden by making your own compost. From garbage to garden, homemade compost is a great soil conditioner and plant food. Consider the following steps to make a homemade compost:

1. Find the right sunny location
2. Build the compost bin
3. Add organic wastes having an equal mix of green and woody waste
4. Wait until the mixture turns brown, crumbling, and slightly sweet smelling

If the desire and time is available a garden is made anywhere. The truth is that a bit of creativity may offer the joy of reaping the harvest. A garden is made anywhere by using hangers, pots and a variety of climbers.

Leviticus 19:9-11

And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. And you shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather every grape of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God. You shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

These days food is almost untrusted, with the pesticide used, and all the uncovered news about unhealthy food products. Mainly, for this reason it is a necessity as part of own welfare to start organizing our own planting garden plan. We have a Spirit, Soul and Body that requires good care.

2 Corinthians 9:6

Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

Blessings to all!

© Maria Magdalena Ruiz O'Farrill